"Do you think I could go to bed now?" asked Elvira, plaintively. "I'm – really terribly tired."
"Of course. You must be," said Father. "You'vetold us all you can remember?"
"Oh. Yes."
"I'll go up with you,"said Bess.
Mother and daughter went out together.
"She knows him all right," said Father.
"Do you really think so?" asked Sergeant Wadell.
"I know it. She had tea with him in Battersea Parkonly a day or two ago."
"How did you find that out?"
"Old lady told me – distressed.Didn't think he was a nice friend for a young girl. He isn't of course."
"Especially if he and the mother –” Wadell broke off delicately. "It's pretty general gossip –”
"Yes. May be true, may not. Probably is."
"In that case which one is he really after?"
Father ignored that point. He said:
Monday, November 19, 2007
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